page_title: Historic regions of the United States
section_title: Internal land grants, cessions, districts, departments, claims and settlements
hierarchical_section_title: Historic regions of the United States / Internal land grants, cessions, districts, departments, claims and settlements
caption_attribution_description: Map of the Ohio Country (English version)
context_page_description: This is a list of historic regions of the United States that existed at some time during the territorial evolution of the United States and its overseas possessions, from the colonial era to the present day. It includes formally organized territories, proposed and failed states, unrecognized breakaway states, international and interstate purchases, cessions, and land grants, and historical military departments and administrative districts. The last section lists informal regions from American vernacular geography known by popular nicknames and linked by geographical, cultural, or economic similarities, some of which are still in use today.
context_section_description: The following are land grants, cessions, defined districts (official or otherwise) or named settlements made within an area that was already part of a U.S. state or territory that did not involve international treaties or Native American cessions or land purchases.
  Cumberland District, North Carolina (also called the District of Miro); Tennessee.
  District of Louisiana; Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming; renamed Missouri Territory in 1812.
  Military Tract of 1812; Illinois, Michigan, Arkansas, Missouri.
  Ohio Country; parts of Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia.
caption: The Ohio Country indicating battle sites between settlers and Native American Tribes, 1775–1794
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